Should Ubuntu Brand It’s Wallpaper?
Recently, I read an article describing some of the things people say about the author’s Ubuntu laptop. The post described the funniest quotes, not the most popular, but I was still interested to see that many people seemed to think that the Ubuntu laptop was running Mac OS X or a new version of Windows. While this is not all that surprising, since many people have never heard of Linux, it is unfortunate that people might see cool effects on someone’s Linux laptop and attribute it to OS X or Windows.
Luckily, there is a simple solution: just add an Ubuntu logo to the wallpaper. Though some might dislike having too much branding on their otherwise clean background, the logo could be integrated into the wallpaper such that it was not annoying. Additionally, there could be an alternative wallpaper without the logo. Plus, lots of other distros already have branding on their wallpapers.
Having some sort of simple Ubuntu logo on the Ubuntu wallpaper might help the less tech-savvy to correctly attribute anything that they like, or dislike, about an Ubuntu laptop and would help get Ubuntu’s name out there.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Non-techies do not make or see the difference between Mac OS, Linux and Windows? Then just say, you have “Windows Ubuntu” on your computer: this way, they will be less suspicious about this thing called Ubuntu and mmmmmaybe you can convince them to use it, too.
July 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I don’t think that will help much – what will is simply keeping the default wallpaper unchanged. If it’s good enough, like the 8.04 one, it’ll get shown in all of the news stories and whatnot, and people will recognize it better.
And if the wallpaper has a logo on it… so what? People won’t recognize it if they don’t know it, or they won’t see it as it’ll be small.
July 19th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
agree +1
June 13th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Let there be a small logo! The logo itself is meaningful , and the message will be communicated!